1. The Historical Position of Literary Darwinism and evolutionary aesthetics Joseph Carroll

2. The physical sciences, the life sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities Are moving toward integration.

3. 2010

4. 1998

5. Physics, astronomy Molecular biology, genetics Evolutionary biology Humanities Causal Constraint Evolutionary social sciences Chemistry

6. Humanities Evolutionary Biology Molecular biology Physics Organizational Complexity Chemistry Evolutionary Social Sciences

7. Evolutionary Biology Physics Chemistry Molecular biology Evolutionary social sciences Humanities Evolutionary biology is the Pivotal discipline Linking the physical sciences with the human sciences, & the humanities

8. Four Paradigm Formations, Each nested in the other: 1.Geology (1830-33) 2.Evolutionary biology (1859) 3.Evolutionary social science (1975) 4.Evolutionary humanities (1992)

9. Time Line

10. 18331992 Geology 1859 Biology 1910 {SSSM} 1975 Evolutionary social science Evolutionary humanities Time Line

11. Four Paradigm Formations, Each nested in the other: 1.Geology (1830-33)

12. 1830-33

13. Four Paradigm Formations, Each nested in the other: 2. Evolutionary biology (1859)

14. 1859 18711872 Descent with Modification was accepted almost immediately. Natural Selection was not fully accepted until the 1930s.

15. 19922002 The SSSM Interregnum: 1910-1975

16. Four Paradigm Formations, Each nested in the other: 3. Evolutionary social science (1975)

17. 19681973-801979 1988 19911992 1975 2005

18. Four Paradigm Formations, Each nested in the other: 4. Evolutionary humanities (1992)

19. 19951996 20002002 2004 19921999 2003

20. 20062007 2005 200820072008 2009

21. 201020112012 2010

22. A Consilient Program:

23. Evolutionary Ideas

24. A Consilient Program: Evolutionary Ideas

25. A Consilient Program: Empirical Methods Evolutionary Ideas and

26. Website questionnaire on 2,000 characters from 202 British novels of the longer 19 th century 1,494 protocols completed Separate website for Thomas Hardys The Mayor of Casterbridge (124 protocols completed) 441 individual characters profiled and graphed

27. Conclusion from Graphing Jane Austen: moral disposition counts overwhelmingly more than the sex of characters.

28. Agonistic structure mirrors the basic political dynamic in egalitarian hunter-gatherer cultures.

29. Antagonists seek dominance.

30. Antagonists seek dominance. Protagonists are prosocial.

31. To recapitulate

32. Four Paradigm Formations, Each nested in the other: 1.Geology (1830-33) 2.Evolutionary biology (1859) 3.Evolutionary social science (1975) 4.Evolutionary humanities (1992)

33. 1830-33

34. 1859 18711872

35. 19681973-801979 1988 19911992 1975 2005

36. 19951996 20002002 2004 19921999 2003

37. Evolutionary Psychology is a paradigm still in process of formation.

38. Flexible general intelligence has now been added in. 1996 20032005

39. Cooperative Group Living is still being added in.

40. 1998 1999 2012 2011 2012

41. And we are still struggling to add in culture and the imagination.

42. 1981 1992 2009 Gene-Culture Co-Evolution

43. Imaginative Culture

44. Three main versions of the adapted mind

45. The Adapted Human Mind

46. Instincts, Dispositions, Motives: Survival Growing Up Sociality Mating Parenting Kinship, plus side effects: (art, pornography, religion, drugs) Narrow-School EP = The Adapted Human Mind

47. Instincts, Dispositions, Motives: Survival Growing Up Sociality Mating Parenting Kinship, plus side effects: (art, pornography, religion, drugs) Narrow-School EP = The Adapted Human Mind 19921997

48. Instincts, Dispositions, Motives: Survival Growing Up Sociality Mating Parenting Kinship, plus side effects: (art, pornography, religion, drugs) Narrow-School EP = The Adapted Human Mind

49. Instincts, Dispositions, Motives: Survival Growing Up Sociality Mating Parenting Kinship, plus side effects: (art, pornography, religion, drugs) Narrow-School EP = General Intelligence: Technology Logistics Social Organization Trade Theology Philosophy History Aesthetics Science Broad-School EP = Narrow-School EP Plus The Adapted Human Mind

50. Instincts, Dispositions, Motives: Survival Growing Up Sociality Mating Parenting Kinship, plus side effects: (art, pornography, religion, drugs) Narrow-School EP = General Intelligence: Technology Logistics Social Organization Trade Theology Philosophy History Aesthetics Science Broad-School EP = Narrow-School EP Plus The Adapted Human Mind 2005

51. Instincts, Dispositions, Motives: Survival Growing Up Sociality Mating Parenting Kinship, plus side effects: (art, pornography, religion, drugs) Narrow-School EP = General Intelligence: Technology Logistics Social Organization Trade Theology Philosophy History Aesthetics Science Broad-School EP = Narrow-School EP Plus The Adapted Human Mind

52. Instincts, Dispositions, Motives: Survival Growing Up Sociality Mating Parenting Kinship, plus side effects: (art, pornography, religion, drugs) Narrow-School EP = General Intelligence: Technology Logistics Social Organization Trade Theology Philosophy History Aesthetics Science Broad-School EP = Narrow-School EP Plus Humanist EP = Broad-School EP Plus Imagination: Religion Art Music Stories Myths Ideology The Adapted Human Mind

53. Humanist EP = Broad-School EP Plus Imagination: Religion Art Music Stories Myths Ideology The Evolved and Adapted Human Mind 20002009 2010 2012

54. Instincts, Dispositions, Motives: Survival Growing Up Sociality Mating Parenting Kinship, plus side effects: (art, pornography, religion, drugs) Narrow-School EP = General Intelligence: Technology Logistics Social Organization Trade Theology Philosophy History Aesthetics Science Broad-School EP = Narrow-School EP Plus Humanist EP = Broad-School EP Plus Imagination: Religion Art Music Stories Myths Ideology The Adapted Human Mind

55. The fully human mind is like a matryoshka doll It has nested levels.

57. Narrow-School EP Basic Motives

58. Narrow-School EP Broad-School EP Basic Motives General Intelligence

59. Narrow-School EP Broad-School EP Humanist EP Basic Motives General Intelligence Imagination

60. What does all this have to do with Aesthetics and literary Criticism?

61. Human nature

62. Motives, Passions = Human life history

63. Human nature

64. Specific cultures

65. Human nature Specific cultures Individual artists

66. Human nature Specific cultures Individual artists Particular works of art

67. Human nature Specific cultures Individual artists

68. Human nature Specific cultures Individual artists Particular works of art

69. Weve come this far.

70. What comes next?

71. More complete integration between human universals and specific historical periods.

72. Human universals Specific cultures Individual artists Particular works of art

73. Human universals Specific cultures Individual artists Particular works of art

74. 20072010 201120122011 2005

75. We have made some progress.

76. 2002 2007 2008 2009 2012

77. Well Make more.

78. Thanks for your attention.